Sentences with phrase «intelligence committee without»

The strategy is intended to produce a bipartisan majority vote for Mr. Brennan in the Senate Intelligence Committee without giving its members seven additional legal opinions on targeted killing sought by senators and while protecting what the White House views as the confidentiality of the Justice Department's legal advice to the president.

Not exact matches

The Justice Department, meanwhile, had said it would be «extraordinarily reckless» for the House Intelligence Committee to approve the memo's release without giving the department enough time to review it and advise lawmakers about national - security implications.

While many of the Church committee's 183 recommendations entrust oversight responsibilities to agency types, cabinet officers, and President's men who have been untrustworthy in the past, the Church plan taken as a whole attempts to put our check - and - balance system into better working order — not to tie the hands of intelligence but to enable it to serve a democratic society's needs without undermining its cherished principles.

«I am more nervous today than I was when I got here,» House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan said of security concerns raised by Thursday's testimony, such as code changes being made to fix the problems without undergoing normal testing.

• The Joint Intelligence Committee had concluded that Saddam Hussein could not be removed without an invasion.

A former employee of a political data - mining firm that obtained information from Facebook users without their consent has agreed to be interviewed by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee.